Love and Sex in Little Women Video Essay

Early Christmas gift to everyone who has been asking for more long-form content. Thank you for your support! It might come as a surprise to some people but there are actually quite a few sex scenes in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. In this episode, we shall dive into 19th-century courtship and how Alcott writes about courtship etiquette. Laurie is based on Alcott's ex and Friedrich to a man she wanted to marry. Little Women, after all, is wish fulfilment. FAIR USE All multimedia clips included in this video constitute a 'fair use' of any copyrighted material as provided for in Section 107 of U.S. Copyright law, which allows for criticism, comment and scholarship. In Finland (my country) this is constituted by the Quotation law. DISCLAIMERS: There are no remaining images from Ladislas Wisniewski. My image references of him are from the public domain, and they are actually photos of a late 19th-century New York composer who I thought might have looked like him. Same with young Elizabeth Powell, pictures are from the public domain. I accidentally said that Louisa was 27 when Henry passed away. She was 28. 15:05 quote is from my friend Christina who runs the best Little Women blog in the universe https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/joandfriedrich ............ The Real-Life Friedrich Bhaer Video Essay /watch/A324U5eSHlMS4 Louisa May Alcott´s love for Germany Video Essay /watch/s22=t&YAWy_hPAclOA= Get 2-month free Premium membership on Skillshare https://www.skillshare.com/r/profile/Niina-Niskanen/4493061 Subscribe to Little Women podcast YouTube channel https://tinyurl.com/yavaneua Say Hi on Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/littlewomenchannel Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/littlewomenchannel Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Small-Umbrella-In-The-Rain-Little-Women-Channel-105885477868178 Small Umbrella In The Rain Little Women Podcast on SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/smallumbrellaintherain Sources: Jo marries Goethe, Dr Bhaer as Louisa May Alcott´s representation of the Goethean ideal by Meghan Armknecht http://jur.byu.edu/?p=18394 Louisa May Alcott, life, letters and journals in Project Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38049/38049-h/38049-h.htm German Literature and Culture in March Trilogy by Christine Doyle https://tinyurl.com/tgmavuk The cosmopolitan project of Louisa May Alcott by Laura Dassow Walls https://muse.jhu.edu/article/453241/pdf Little Women 150 years edition https://amzn.to/2U6HYxY Little Men 150 years edition https://amzn.to/2xBROR6 Jo´s Boys 150 years edition https://amzn.to/2xtBUYP Wedding Marches, Louisa May Alcott, Marriage and the Newness of Little Women https://tinyurl.com/uct35ql Louisa May Alcott and the Transcendentalist Tradition by Roberta Pardi-Oláh https://tinyurl.com/r6hfjqg The Wide Wide World by Susan Warner https://amzn.to/39POfVG The Sorrows of Young Werther by J.W. Goethe https://amzn.to/2W9NcvB Wilhelm Meister´s Apprenticeship by J.W. Goethe https://amzn.to/38L3nlL Louisa May Alcott by Harriet Reisen https://amzn.to/2TNeO8b Little Women 150/ Under the umbrella https://tinyurl.com/s8hagxf Facts and Fiction in Little Women by Jamie Lynn Burgess https://tinyurl.com/rf7gzkn Thoreau, Alcott and the mythic west by Fred Erisman https://tinyurl.com/vhg5crz "Fun forever?" Toys, Games and Plays in Louisa May Alcott´s Little Women by Anne. K. Phillips https://tinyurl.com/qkp6uul 19th-century German immigration to America by Tina Marie Schrader https://tinyurl.com/quaaa62 ​​ Contradictions Between Thought and Action as a Source of Tension in Louisa M. Alcott’s Little Women https://tinyurl.com/ryays8j Louisa May Alcott and Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué https://tinyurl.com/rmdjsrm Why Friedrich is better for Jo than Laurie https://tinyurl.com/rpaw9nw "Little Women," Laurie, and the Argument for Racebent Casting https://tinyurl.com/v6eaojm Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott https://amzn.to/38K2fPf Long Fatal love chase by Louisa May Alcott https://amzn.to/3aSFUk1 Work Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott https://amzn.to/33leil1 Moods by Louisa May Alcott https://amzn.to/2WdBOyL Rose in Bloom: Endings and Beginningshttps://tinyurl.com/sebhzy5 Getting to know principal characters in Moods https://tinyurl.com/qvvmp9e ​ Why Laurie and Jo don´t end up together https://tinyurl.com/sghd63b Alternate Views of Sexuality in Victorian America By Kelsey Shober https://tinyurl.com/yxyszu4c ............... Get yourself Tubebuddy FOR FREE https://www.tubebuddy.com/smallumbrellaintherain Tubebuddy is one of my biggest helpers when finding relevant keywords and understanding my audience. This description contains affiliate links that allow you to find sources I use in my research and make this video and support the channel at no cost to you. Help caption and translate this video https://tinyurl.com/ybxh9to6 #littlewomen #JoMarch #FriedrichBhaer

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